Pakistan has been paid off for years to be an ally of the United States. The U.S. would like them to start acting like it. Quickly. Some Pakistani officials were allowing Osama bin Laden to hide in their dusty gated community in the suburbs just miles away from a key military academy (and, probably, 20 Applebee’s locations). Some officials recently tried to out the name of a CIA operative after the bin Laden crap hit the history fan. Who are these officials? The U.S. doesn’t know, but they seem to be protected. For one thing, Pakistan won’t let their “ally” talk to bin Laden’s wives. “Our guess is that the wives knew just who was keeping Bin Laden alive for all these years,” somebody told the New York Times. Maybe if we put them on that Wife Swap show? [NYT] - “Republican college degree holders are more likely than those without a degree to support Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, 21% vs. 13%… The reverse is true for Sarah Palin, who is favored by nearly twice as many Republicans without a college degree as those with one, 16% vs. 9%.” But her supporters are a real “who’s who” of their respective trailer parks/meth blocks. [Gallup]
- It looks to us like Politico is suggesting President Obama should have waited to go after bin Laden until around the time of the election, because voters will forget about it by then. For Politico, treason can be good policy. They would probably do a little treason if it got them a better table at one of those fancy correspondents’ dinners. [Politico]
May 26, 2012
IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA
May 9, 2011
U.S. Doesn’t Want To Go To War With Pakistan, But They’re Making It Hard
by Jack Stuef 9:44 am May 9, 2011
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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason,
Because they hath nukes.
If Politico had nukes I'd probably move planets, they would use them on day one to get a scoop.
Uhhh…that second item. Uhhh..fucking..DUH.
The fact that even 9% of college-degree-holders support Palin is proof that our education system is failing.
Regent. Bob Jones. Liberty. Oral Roberts.
Is our fundamentalist christian children learning?
No.
America First! right politico?
Pakistan is the Joe Lieberman of US Allies.
They even speak in that same, Droopy Dog voice.
The stupider you are, the more likely you are to support Sarah Palin.
In related news, researchers have discovered that water is very wet.
Well at least we know where all the University of Phoenix grads stand politically.
There is a celebrity Wife Swap coming up next season; though so far, the only "celebrity" announced is washed-up teabagger queen Victoria Jackson (no, really). Osama's wives would be perfect for that season – imagine Victoria in Pakistan.
The best Swap would be Bachmann & Palin and Can you believe how much their husbands would be grateful that they didn't marry the other one?
At least her face would be covered…now, about that voice…
I would prefer to imagine her in Afghanistan.
I would prefer to imagine her on the sun.
I love the way your mind works!
Victoria Jackson got someone to marry her? Yeeeeeeeeeeesssh
She probably had a little bit of money back in her SNL hey day plus she wasn't as fat and her boobs were probably a big enough distraction, it didn't really matter what stupid shit she was spouting.
My new work socks (Railroad Sock – An American Tradition Since 1901) are made in Pakistan. I'm worried if we war with them this tradition will be interrupted.
Come to think about it, a lot of woolen shit is made in Pakistan. Maybe the sheep are pissed.
Did we really need a poll to tell us that the less educated you are the more likely you would be to support Sarah Palin? Palinites = a constituency of dunces.
Given the likely location of her supporters, I think one could even say a Confederacy of Dunces.
This survey must have been conducted by the Center for Figuring Out Really Obvious Things:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/teen-sex-linked-...
Yeah, but how can one be "less educated" than a Romney supporter?
If we didn't have public schools and libraries, and wanted to start them now, who do you think would be against them?
Hell, a lot of the wingnuts actually want to eliminate the public schools today; they hate non-rich people that much.
Once the public schools are gone bye bye libraries " only rich people know how to read"
Hey, if people want to read books or think or something, they can do so on their own dime. Time to stop asking for handouts and work for your education, kids! Now get back to work in those mines!
That's one of the main recurring planks in the Republiklan platform. The elimination of the Department of Education. You only need to know how to work a shovel or pick to get a job in the coal mines.
I got to say if I was running in Republican primary I would see the poorly educated as my target demographic…well done Sarah.
"Birds of a feather"… and all that.
No, no, no, they're getting all geographically confused. They should bomb India, so we can all get our white collar jobs back.
You say "Iraq," I say "Iran,"
You say "Pakistan," I say "India,"
Let's call the whole thing off!
For those of us who remember the Reagan Administration:
You say Grenaaada, I say Grenahda,
You say Invaaada, I say Why Nota,
Grenaaada, Grenahda, Invaaada, Why Nota,
Let's call the whole thing off!
Too bad, the best thing to come from the Raygun Revolution is the Clint Eastwood movie, Heartbreak Ridge.
Heyy, McCain knew since about 2008 where Osama was and he didn't tell anybody can we please get him out of office on treason charges?
Politico: Where no good deed goes unpublished in the context of whatever election is coming up.
“The specter of Jimmy Carter was beginning to haunt the Obama administration. For now, at least, that narrative is stopped in its tracks.”
Whom, other than former Bush officials and right wing hacks ever made that comparison, Politico? Fuck. This shit and the "enhanced interrogation technique" jamboree that was Sunday television toxic talk is making me think that the media really isn't librul. For fucks sake.
They both have prominent lips & huge teeth?
I remember Jimmy Carter well. Obama is no Jimmy Carter. For one thing, Jimmy Carter was a liberal.
You'd never have convinced Teddy K of that.
I guess it's all relative, especially in a historical perspective. Back in the day, I used to know some dyed-in-the-wool Republicans who were decent human beings.
RINOs!!!!1111!!!!
It's the same problem as buying off politicians and cops, it's hard to keep them bought.
Second Amendment Solutions, Michael Corleone Corollary must be initiated.
The prez told no one except a few trusted advisors about the upcoming bin Laden raid. Pakistan- not so much…
Getting the "Republicans with college degrees" demographic is probably as important to clinching the nomination as getting the "Republicans who used to be ducks but underwent successful anthropomorphization surgery" demographic.
I don't think the coveted Mallard Fillmore endorsement has been revealed yet, has it?
SOW, dear Bruce Tinsley has apparently decided to become Helen Keller about OBL's death in his strip. Or better yet, Sergeant Schultz.
Ha. The Gallup poll didn't even bother to include pizza guy/debate winner Herman Cain…racists!!!
It's good to see that Santorum is equally despised across all incomes and educations.
Plus it tastes horrible… oh wait… you mean Rick huh?*
(* I really don't know what it tastes like… but I can only imagine)
Pakistan gave nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, Libya, and Iran. The confessed culprit, AQ Khan, was kept under house arrest for a while, but is now free as a bird.
Oh, yeah, US intelligence was never allowed to interview him, either.
All of this faux shock that Pakistan can't be trusted is coming from people who haven't been paying attention for years or – hey, look over there! Charlie Sheen is talkin' crazy! Tiger Woods is bangin' chicks! Balloon Boy! Janet Jackson's nipple! Lindsay Lohan's wasted…
… reality TV… period. What a waste of fucking oxygen.
Back when the Atlantic was worth a shit — meaning, before Megan Mc Cardle was queen, & the mag got Sullivan'd & went full Easterbrook — they had a pretty hot article about AQK.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/...
It's baffling to me how this went down the memory hole, never to be resurrected. It's not a theory, conspiracy or otherwise. The guy confessed, the Pakistani government government confirmed it, various US agencies have made public statements about it. Giving nuclear weapons technology to the craziest motherfuckers on earth is somehow not newsworthy?
The whole "Who would have ever expected that Pakistan wasn't on the up-and-up with us?" Do. Not. Get.
Also, McArdle… How does that moron remain employed? Another Do. Not. Get. How do I get off Bizarro World?
Lindasy Lohan's wasted . . . what? . . . wasted talent?
I disagree. Her work on Machete was Oscar worthy.
"We have ignorant politicians because of ignorant voters…" George Carlin. (I'm paraphrasing because I'm too lazy/stupid to google, cut and paste the exact quote.)
Points for effort.
'tanks!
You'll never reach the exalted heights of Chuck Norris that way.
I need moar kicks to the hed.
Dumb people like Sarah Palin….huh….Whoda thunk it?
Repubs have college degrees??…and where's the Donald!!!
Republicans who have degrees but couldn't get accepted into a mid-level MBA program or Law School if their life depended on it are Ron Paul supporters.
The guys who commissioned that poll must hold M.O. degrees. Master of the Obvious.
Yes going to war with a country that has 170 million Muslims would be an excellent tune-up for the invasion of Iran.
Republicans with degrees–stupid and dull. Republicans without degrees–stupid and crazy.
OK, college educated Republicans vote for Romney, who are the smart ones voting for?
Obama.
Christopher Buckley got fired from the magazine his dad started for saying as much.
Smart Republicans!?!
It's an oxymoran.
Right, Ari. Because the Obama administration was the one that single-handedly caused the economy to go in to the shitter, has consistently been best butt-buddies with Big Oil, and is the one that demanded those sweet sweet tax cuts for the rich, amirite?
Unfortunately those last two points aren't too far from the truth.
Yea, I know. But really, Barry ought to have this Bill Maher screed cued up on an endless loop for whenever any GOP moron or sympathizer opens his/her trap about the sorry state of the "Obama economy."
The price of crude just had it's highest weekly price DROP in history. Watch for gasoline at $2.90 by the Labor Day sell off so refiners and jobbers can fill the storage tanks with heating oil for the expected colder than usual winter.
The Big Lie. Just keep telling The Big Lie. Obama is responsible for the bad economy, torture works and isn't even really torture and Dubya single handedly got OBL.
And there were no terrorist attacks under Bush/Cheney!
If we go to war with Pakistan, does this mean I'll finally be able to understand whoever is talking to me on AT&T's customer service line? Because if so, I'm kind of in.
You are confusing India and Pakistan again.
I know the outsourcing is to India but I, being a Texas rube, can't understand either of their accents!
That's ok rube most of us can't understand yaaawhl either.
Sadly, the British didn't.
But, to be honest, the biggest winner in the partition wasn't the UK, US, USSR, or India. The biggest winner — China.
(Imagine, for a moment, a united subcontinent (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan) on China's western slope. The PRC would be shitting bricks over the competition.)
With regard to Pakistan, we should agree with them being a sovereign state whose borders should be protected….then say that we should never interfere in their business by sending in such huge influxes of untracked money. Cut both Pakistan and Afghanistan back to specific humanitarian and development aid that is well tracked and let them stand on their own feet as they both have said they'd like to do.
The Real House Wives of Pakistan? The season finale will end in a bang!
And Sarah Palin is included in the poll…why? Is she actually running for something?
That Gallup poll is depressing. That there are any Republican voters who make less than $24,000 per year or even enough to count in the $24,000 to $59,000 category shows that Koch/Scaife side is winning the class war.
Palin will be tough to beat. For instance, she seems to have the Tweeker vote all but locked up.
And the Twatter.
Every time Politico writes a story, an angel loses its wings.
Every time Politico writes a story, God kills a kitten. Please people. Think of the kittens.
I was going to write that 'a butterfly slams into the windshield of a big rig' but I'm trying to start my week out on a positive note!
Republicans with college degrees favor Romney? But…but…but I thought that our colleges were bastions of liberal thought and that they refused to graduate anyone on the right of Karl Marx.
Recall that Romney passed universal healthcare in Massachusetts. For a hard core Republican, he might as well BE a Democrat.
Well, there's always Liberty U and Pepperdine.
After the Kinsey Institute at IU-Bloomington, Pepperdine has the most advanced fellatio studies department in the world. Why else do you think they hired Ken Starr?
Pakistan/US like this:
Don't take your love away from me
Don't you leave my heart in misery
If you go then I'll be blue
'Cause breaking up his hard to do
Remember when you held me tight
And you kissed me all through the night
Think of all that we've been through
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
They say that breaking up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it's true
Don't say that this is the end
Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again
I beg of you, don't say goodbye
Can't we give our love another try
Come on baby, let's start a new
'Cause breaking up is hard to do
American wives will be lining up to swap with bin Laden's widows. Movie into a blood soaked compound with no phone or internet service and get on TeeVee. Perfect.
When you say it like that, it rather sounds like "The Simple Life: Pakistan." Except that bin Laden's widows are doubtless smarter than those rich blonde girls. The 'Merkin counterparts, probably not.
I see the little
Kochcocksucker is busy this morning.100 percent of college-educated republicans attended college. That's for true.
That's Crazy Talk, Rooster!
Gee… thanks man.
"As I was going to St. Ives, I met a terrorist with seven wives…"
Also, The Real Housewives of Osama bin Laden? Worst reality show evah.
"Oh, what're you thinkin' about?"
"I don't know. War, & stuff".
Look, as for who thinks they's all "smart" and shit while also still trying to choose between these wind tunnel farts, besides giving me a fucking headache, alls I can say is, ummm, I heard Frank Luntz say that the most important god damned people in the world were in South Carolina – and they all loooooooved the Godfather, so ya know, fuck Mittens and Sarah P.
Cain it is.
Downfister twit seems to be a bin Laden fan.
Applebee's? TAI Friday's, surely.
I didn't realize the term "frenemy" is now part of our official diplomatic terminology.
Given his love of hot dogs, Paultard is a good supposition.
But, were they Blimpie's?
Outing a CIA operative as political payback?That's the kind of thing that'll get a person in trouble. Or pardoned and praised by the Bushies.
But maybe Naomi Watts will play him in the movie.
Seems, on balance, to be a good deal.
i thought we weren't allowed to go to politico?
anyway, i'm not going to politico.
According to Republicans, outing CIA employees is no big deal.
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